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Voyageurs National Park on the Canadian border is the only national park in America without a road of any kind.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

The state’s first license plate was issued in 1911. Since 1950, license plates have boasted of “10,000 lakes.”

first appeared: 2/3/2002

As many as 5,500 ice houses are erected by fishermen on Mille Lacs Lake each winter, forming a temporary community larger than many of the nearby towns.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

When the U.S. ice hockey team won the silver metal in the 1956 Olympics, four members (the coach and three players) were from Eveleth (pop. 3,865).

first appeared: 1/20/2002

Incorporated in Roseau (pop. 2,756) in 1954, Polaris Industries continues to design and manufacture snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles in the town near the Canadian border.

first appeared: 1/13/2002

In 1990, residents of Kimball Prairie officially shortened the town’s name to Kimball (pop. 635) because that’s what it was commonly called.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

Blue Earth (pop. 3,621) earned its name from the blue-green-colored earth of a bank of shale alongside the Blue Earth River where American Indians got pigments for paint.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

Established in 1906, the Robbinsdale (pop. 14,123) Community Band is the oldest continually active band in the state. About 75 musicians make up its concert band.

first appeared: 12/23/2001

The North Shore Mountains Trail is the longest of Minnesota’s 135 cross-country ski trails. About 70 miles long, the trail is near Tofte on Lake Superior’s north shore.

first appeared: 12/16/2001

Model Cheryl Tiegs was born Sept. 25, 1947, in Breckenridge (pop. 3,559).

first appeared: 12/9/2001

In March, AutoHaus Experts in Stillwater (pop. 15,143) began restoring a gray Volkswagen Beetle that Charles Lindbergh bought in Paris in 1959 and drove 130,000 miles across four continents.

first appeared: 12/2/2001

On July 30, 1884, the state’s first load of iron ore, weighing 100 tons, was shipped from the Breitung Pit mine near Tower (pop. 479) to the port of Two Harbors (pop. 3,613).

first appeared: 11/25/2001

Thirteen-year-old Sean Conley of Aitken (pop. 1,984) won the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee last June in the 16th round by correctly spelling succedaneum, which means a substitute or replacement

first appeared: 11/18/2001

The world’s deepest explored glacial pothole, a 60-foot depression created when rocks spun by ancient torrents of water bore a hole in underlying rock, is the Bottomless Pit at Interstate State Park near Taylors Falls (pop. 951).

first appeared: 11/11/2001

Rollerblades were invented by Brennan and Scott Olson, brothers who started making in-line skates in their parents’ Bloomington home in 1980 because they thought their new design would make an ideal off-season hockey training tool.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

The Jackson County Courthouse in Jackson (pop. 3,501) doubles as a museum, displaying a collection of fossils and American Indian artifacts.

first appeared: 10/28/2001

Built in the early 1950s as the state’s first strip mall, St. Anthony Shopping Center in St. Anthony (pop. 8,012) was owned by the Batista family, which ruled Cuba at the time.

first appeared: 10/21/2001

Southdale Mall in Edina was the world’s first indoor shopping mall in the world when it opened in October 1956.

first appeared: 10/14/2001

The town of Embarrass (pop. 691) sits directly atop the Laurentian divide, with two rivers within three miles of town flowing in opposite directions.

first appeared: 10/7/2001

With one of every six residents owning a boat, Minnesota—the Land of 10,000 Lakes—leads the nation in boats per capita.

first appeared: 9/30/2001

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